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Tearful Esther Rantzen reveals her regrets about putting her career before building a home

She has spent a life time tackling other people's heartache.

But last night the strain of appearing on 24 hour reality TV finally got to Esther Rantzen as she recalled the death of her late husband.

Rantzen, who has already threatened to quit I'm A Celebrity..Get Me Out of Here, seemed in poor spirits after three nights in harsh conditions sleeping out in the open with little food.

She was in reflective mood and spoke of her hectic career which meant she did not marry until she was 37.

The That's Life presenter and Childline founder had been talking to fellow competitors Carly Zucker and Nicola McLean about their footballing partners - England star Joe Cole and Tom Williams, who plays for Peterborough United - before beginning to compare star signs.

Rantzen, married to TV producer Desmond Wilcox for more than 30 years before his death in 2000, started to cry after it was pointed out that her horoscope sign Cancer, was traditionally that of a homemaker.

She sobbed: 'I never was. I was doing my career. I didn't marry until I was 37.'

The 68-year-old tearfully explained to the cameras: 'Listening to the girls. They were talking about the laughter and companionship and things and I had a partnership like theirs. I had somebody. I miss him obviously.

'My late husband was a warm, generous, loving person with a fantastic sense of humour and it would be so good to come back from here and we would have laughed together about the whole experience about little things that happen.

'When you've got a companion like this it's whatever life throws at you, you share.'

McClean later confessed to Rantzen that she felt they had been insensitive towards her.

Wilcox, whose credits included hit 1960s series Man Alive and hard hitting documentary The Story of David, died eight years ago after a long battle with heart disease.

Rantzen spoke publicly of her devastation at losing him admitting that she found it difficult to 'envisage life without him'.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova was also in the mood for confessions. She revealed to fellow camp mates Dani Behr and Paddick that she had one experimented with heterosexual sex.

The former Wimbledon champion said: 'It was fine. It was just not for me. That's the misconception about sexual orientation.

That it is a choice, a preference. The choice is who you sleep with, not who you fall in love with – there is no choice.'

Source and Pictures: Daily Mail

[Jackie]

I did have tears in my eyes when she started crying I felt sorry for Ester losing her husband and not being able to share the experience with him.